Over 1 million folks have accomplished the Quest 3 blended actuality introduction expertise First Encounters.
First Encounters begins shortly after you arrange a Quest 3 and is not out there on earlier Meta headsets. It makes use of the 3D scene mesh Quest 3 can generate to have a craft crash by your ceiling and land on a desk or the ground, in addition to to allow you to shoot out components of your actual wall. You then should shoot waves of invading creatures till a timer runs out. What number of you shoot determines your rating, and your rating is logged to Quest’s leaderboard system.
Software program developer Daven Bigelow has been diligently monitoring the leaderboard for First Encounters, as a result of within the Meta Quest smartphone app it exhibits what number of different “individuals” there are, ie. how many individuals have accomplished Quest 3’s introduction.
And there we go, Quest 3 has a 99.999% probability that 1M items are within the wild, the morning after Quest 2 lastly began going out of inventory worldwide pic.twitter.com/eI2UB2oK2d
— JustDaven (@JayHadHope) June 26, 2024
We wrote “at the very least” on this headline as a result of technically, there is not any obligation to finish First Encounters. You can refuse to scan your room mesh or you could possibly give up and skip the expertise at any time. It is also unclear whether or not individuals who have their profile set to non-public are included within the 1 million determine. If they don’t seem to be, Quest 3 gross sales are possible far in extra of 1 million.
Within the March 2023 Meta roadmap assembly leaked to The Verge Meta’s VP of VR Mark Rabkin instructed workers the corporate had bought nearly 20 million Quest headsets. Three months after that, one other Meta assembly was leaked to The Verge through which Mark Zuckerberg instructed workers “we now have bought tens of thousands and thousands of Quests”. In July 2021 now-CTO Andrew Bosworth stated Quest 2 had “outsold not simply its predecessor, however all of its predecessors mixed”, suggesting the overwhelming majority of the 20 million Quests bought by final summer season had been Quest 2.
So eight months after launch, Quest 3 has bought someplace north of 1 million items, whereas three years after launch Quest 2 had bought someplace round 20 million. However this slower tempo is not sudden.
Quest 2 launched at $100 cheaper than its predecessor, which was instantly taken off the market. In distinction, Quest 3 launched at $200 dearer and Quest 2 has continued to be bought at a good cheaper price. Since March, Quest 2 has been bought at $200 whereas Quest 3 stays at $500.
Meta Quest 3S: Specs, Particulars, Every part We Know So Far
Meta’s subsequent headset is Quest 3S. Right here’s all the pieces we’ve heard about it to date, together with the way it possible compares to Quest 3 and Quest 2.
Meta appears to have a plan to take care of the affordability downside right here although, as here is been robust proof over the previous 16 months that it’s making ready to launch a less expensive different to Quest 3 to straight exchange Quest 2 in its lineup.
In March 2023 the leaked Meta roadmap talked about this cheaper headset, and late final month the official Quest Retailer listed “Meta Quest 3S”, a reputation seen in an obvious leak three months in the past purporting to point out the headset’s design. To high all of it off, earlier this month a headset with that design was noticed within the background of a video posted by Meta’s CTO.
If Quest 3S arrives on the roughly $300 value it is anticipated to whereas sustaining the XR2 Gen 2 chipset and blended actuality capabilities, it can possible promote in a lot bigger quantity than Quest 3, rising the marketplace for blended actuality and giving builders extra energy to work with than Quest 2 ever may.
